Goo.gle Merges Wallet, Android Pay into Goo.gle Pay.
There's a new name for all of Google's mobile payment platforms, and it's one the company probably should have settled on a while ago. Starting today, Android Pay and Google Wallet will henceforth be combined into the all-encompassing Google Pay.
The announcement came Monday (Jan. 8) via a post on Google's The Keyword blog, and is a fitting and predictable resolution for Google's complementary digital money services.
Google Wallet, as it was originally known, allowed users to both send funds to one another, like Venmo or PayPal, and use their phone's NFC capabilities for tap-and-pay physical transactions. That changed in 2015, when Google decided to spin off the tap-and-pay portion of the service into Android Pay. Meanwhile, Google Wallet maintained the peer-to-peer side of things.
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